BONUSES FOR CREATING ILLEGAL ACCOUNTS: 3.5 MILLION SO FAR
Add to that Republicans’ and Trump administration efforts to eliminate Consumer Financial Bureau. And the revelation: Without their knowledge or permission, signing up 528,000 customers […]
COULD MANUFACTURING ROBOTS RESTORE “MANUFACTURING IN AMERICA”?
It’s become common place to read “industrial robotics will revolutionize manufacturing and replace workers”. With that one looks in vain for American innovation and for […]
WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION FOR 25-54 YEAR OLDS FELL
And wages remain stagnant, August 2017, rising .001 from July. Employer-demand for workers will raise wages, but at 4.4% unemployment wages have not risen. […]
UNSKILLED, FOOD-STAMP-TAKING IMMIGRANT MAKES GOOD
Jan Koum, born in Kiev in the Ukraine, immigrated to America at 16 with his mother, Jan Koum got food stamps, worked as a janitor, […]
IMMIGRANT INNOVATION IN AMERICA
Americans have won 40% of all Nobel Prizes ever awarded – immigrants accounted for 35% of those winners (George Mason University). 40% of all Fortune 500 […]
WIND FARMS IN A HURRICANE
A Texas Gulf Coast wind farm Papalote Creek with 196 turbines and megawatts enough to serve approximately 114,000 homes withstood sustained Harvey winds of 90 […]
STAGNANT WAGES AND ….
Stagnant wages, more risk for retirement (confidence in retirement plans has fallen to 37% in 2016 from 73% in 1971), higher burden for health care, […]
$1 TRILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE BECOMES “Hmmm?”
Trump’s promise of $1 Trillion federal funding for airports, dams, levies, water treatment plants, rail & mass transit and other infrastructure, now reduced to $200 […]
FAVORABILITY? ALL BELOW 50%
Completely fed up with the frantic, incoherent and destructive nature of party politics? Trump’s “favorability” is low. Congress & Democrats, even lower. The full approval […]
PROFOUND TRUTH REVEALED BY HIGH-FASHION MELANIA?
“…a profound truth at the heart of this administration and its relationship to America’s citizens: It is as dissociative as a fashion advertisement, brought to […]